OKLAHOMA CITY – Benchmark Litigation has named Dallas attorney Christopher M. Staine and Oklahoma City attorney Evan G.E. Vincent to its 2023 40 & Under Hot List. *
Staine is a shareholder and VP of Administration in the firm’s Dallas office. As a member of the firm’s litigation department, Staine’s trial practice focuses in the areas of commercial, bankruptcy, banking, creditor’s rights, and oil and gas disputes. A champion of diversity and inclusion, Staine also serves as chair of the firm’s Diversity Committee and is actively involved in many of the firm’s diversity initiatives at the national and local levels. His inclusion on the list is his sixth consecutive year to receive the distinction.
Staine earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Oklahoma College of Law and his undergraduate degree from the University of Oklahoma.
A director in the firm’s Oklahoma City office, Vincent represents clients in complex and high stakes civil matters that include a wide variety of cases such as construction disputes, lawsuits involving the oil and gas industry, catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases and shareholder disputes in closely held companies. Earlier this year, he was inducted into the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). This is the seventh time he has received this recognition, and the sixth consecutive year.
Vincent earned his bachelor’s degree and Juris Doctor from the University of Oklahoma. He also holds a Master of Laws in Trial Advocacy from Temple Law School in 2020, where he received the Faculty Award for outstanding achievement in courtroom presentation and performance. He also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law.
*Crowe & Dunlevy has no input in the rating methodologies used by Benchmark Litigation.